tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 23 21:32:23 1999
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Re: Hello
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Hello
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:36:52 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:39:47 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 2/19/99 11:44:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> << Maybe we'll discover that {Sap} can also mean "volunteer to", the way
> we recently found out that {SIv} can apparently mean "wonder if". But
> today, {...'e' Sap} just sounds wrong to me. >>
>
> so if SIv can mean "wonder if", then Sentence 'e' SIv would mean I wonder if
> .., right?
So far, that is the ONLY use of {SIv} that Okrand has given us.
Even that may be superceded if Okrand ever decides exactly how
to use {SIv} generally. For now, we have seen it like:
juHDajDaq ghaHtaH bangwI''e' 'e' vISIv.
I wonder if my Signficant Other is home.
> T'Lod
charghwI' 'utlh